Land Tenure and Property Rights: Sudan

Southern Sudan is in the midst of a fragile transition from decades of civil war to a tentative peace. Land tenure and property rights (LTPR) issues could undermine that transition by hampering a productive agricultural sector and long-term economic growth. Rural people contest the right of the GOSS to hold and manage land in trust on their behalf, claiming that land “belongs to the people.” Ongoing conflicts, many violent, erupt among pastoralists and between pastoralists and farmers. Customary claims to land in peri-urban areas are routinely ignored, fueling conflict. Laws and state institutions for land administration and conflict mediation are weak, and there is confusion over which laws take precedent, statutory or customary.

Location: Sudan

Author(s): Dr. Gregory Myers

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